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Exhibit A Preliminary Findings Skinner Butte Height Limitation Amendment (City File CA 18-3) Overview Skinner Butte Height Limitation Amendment: This proposed land use code amendment will create a half -block building height transition area between the commercially zoned area south of 6th Avenue and the Skinner Butte Height Limitation Area north of 6th Avenue. The proposed height transition area would occupy the half -block area north of 6th Avenue between Washington Street and Coburg Road. This amendment will increase allowable building heights within a half block area, north of 6th Avenue from 500 feet above mean sea level to 530 feet above mean sea level, which could result in buildings up to approximately 110 feet tall (from the current height limit of approximately 80 feet). Findings Eugene Code Section 9.8065 requires that the following approval criteria (in bold italics) be applied to a code amendment: (1) The amendment is consistent with applicable statewide planning goals adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Goal 1 - Citizen Involvement. To develop a citizen involvement program that insures the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process. The City has acknowledged provisions for community involvement which insure the opportunity for citizens to be involved in all phases of the planning process and set out requirements for such involvement. The code amendment does not amend the citizen involvement program. The process for adopting this amendment complied with Goal 1 because it is consistent with the City's acknowledged citizen involvement provisions. A Notice of Proposed Amendment was filed with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development on May 2, 2018. A public hearing was scheduled before the Planning Commission on June 5, 2018. A public hearing is scheduled before the City Council for July 16, 2018. Consistent with land use code requirements, the Planning Commission public hearing on the proposal was duly noticed to all affected property owners and occupants, owners and occupants of property within 300 feet of the site, all neighborhood organizations in Eugene, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, Lane County, City of Springfield, and community groups and individuals who have requested notice. Signs announcing the public hearing were posted May 4, 2018 on and around the affected properties, consistent with land use code requirements. Information concerning the amendment, including the dates of the public hearings, was posted on the City of Eugene website. Findings - 1